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The Quick-change Artist - Stories

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor Cary Holladay has published seven volumes of fiction, including The Quick-Change Artist, Horse People: Stories, and The Deer in the Mirror. Her stories and essays have appeared in Ecotone, Epoch, Georgia Review, Hudson Review, Kenyon Review, Oxford American, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Southern Review, Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many other journals. Her story "Merry-Go-Sorry" was selected by Stephen King for an O. Henry award. She teaches at the University of Memphis. Klappentext In these stories of magic and memory, clustered around a resort hotel in a small Virginia community, Cary Holladay takes the reader on an excursion through the changes wrought by time on the community and its visitors. From the quiet of a rural forest to the rhythms of rock and roll, The Quick-Change Artist is at once whimsical and hard-edged, dizzying in its matter-of-fact delivery of the fantastic. Romance, a sense of place and belonging, and the supernatural--especially in the lives of children coming of age--offer windows into worlds beyond the ordinary throughout The Quick-Change Artist. In the title story, a young chambermaid is in love with a foreign magician who performs at the hotel where she works. In "Heaven," set during the 1918 flu epidemic, a struggling mother and son rely on the support of their fortune-telling plow horse. The narrator of "Jane's Hat" recalls a childhood enlivened by an unusual school principal and a friend who starts finding beauty everywhere. Horses and the people who love them, wanderers and those who feed them, creatures that disappear and those who search for them: these are stories with a constant heart. "These stories are strung together like pearls. They're delightful and engaging and heartfelt, with quirky characters and wonderful phrasings, such as 'supper club grief treatment.' A triumph!" --Bobbie Ann Mason Zusammenfassung In these stories of magic and memory! clustered around a resort hotel in a small Virginia community! Cary Holladay takes the reader on an excursion through the changes wrought by time on the community and its visitors. ...

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Authors Cary Holladay
Publisher University of ohio press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 13.10.2006
 
EAN 9780804010931
ISBN 978-0-8040-1093-1
No. of pages 224
Dimensions 133 mm x 203 mm x 13 mm
Subject Fiction > Narrative literature

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